As the host all you have to do is click host game on the main menu of killing floor select the gamemode which you want to play select the map settings and etc lastly click the big listen button on the bottom right of your screen it will bring you into a lobby.
Killing floor 1 how to host.
Since the game is running with the steam backend if you are running more than 1 server per ip you will need to make sure that you have some additional ports open beyond the default kf ports.
Hosting your own is another story and honestly not worth the effort.
Open 127 0 0 1 it will force killing floor to load that server.
This is just a quick tutorial on creating a killing floor 2 server and how to join it was specifically created for the current epic mess where no one is abl.
T opens text chat.
Ok so i just got this game and i have absolutely no idea how to host a lan server so my brother can join in.
I can see when i right click in game lan tab that open ip pops up and i need to type the ip adress in i have no idea what this stuff.
If you change the default game port from 7707 this change will be reflected in the master server port 28852 and the steam port 20560 as well.
There are 3 maybe 4 ports to open.
Good news is that you don t have to do it every time.
It s a to do but yeah it s down to the ports.
Here s a quick tutorial on how to host a server to play with your friends in killing floor without port forwarding though i suggest to do port forwarding if you can.
Or killing floor has it s own voice chat in game with the voice chat command being capslock by default.
You can save the ports once you ve made em.
Thirdly create a group in steam and use the group voice chat.